Kansas City's gun theft 'victims' are arming criminals -- and getting away with it

[USALiberal]

Good luck trying to find this guy.

Three times since April 2016, a Kansas City man walked into his local police station and reported he had been robbed of a 9 mm handgun — or two.

Once it happened near the corner of 42nd and Indiana, he said. Another time near a south Kansas City night club. The latest in the 18th and Vine district. Five guns in all, gone.

True? Who knows.

"We live in a world of lies," said Sgt. Paul Hamilton of the Kansas City Police Department's illegal firearms squad.

Many self-described victims of gun thefts are not telling the truth, gun violence experts say, and cops and courts seem nearly powerless against the problem.

In such cases, someone who legally acquired a gun passes it on to an illegal gun owner. And then, as an alibi, the legal gun owner reports the gun as stolen just in case it is recovered in a violent crime and traced back to their hands.

More at Link:

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article214004824.html

[Salviati]

1. In a world full of reasonable gun owners...

People who keep having their guns "stolen" would no longer be allowed to purchase them. Either they're lying or being irresponsible about storing their guns. Either case should disqualify them from gun ownership.

[Runningdawg]

2. There is a chance they aren't arming anyone as the guns were never stolen

and are still in the person's possession. Out here in gun country it's called insurance fraud. Report them stolen, collect insurance money, buy more guns. You occasionally hear someone joke about losing all their guns in "a terrible boating accident" or about how they had X amount of guns in the trunk of their car when it was stolen. The car might be recovered, but of course the guns will never be.